2006/07 Personal Best  Award Winners

Week 22 - Sat  31st  March  2007 - Knox Centre Championship Day

Well this has been another fantastic Championships for Bayswater Bullets athletes. We bettered our medal tally from last season by two with 33 medals won - 13 Gold, 10 Silver and 10 Bronze medals won from 12 different athletes as well as many ribbon placings including 9 fourth place winners. 

We also had four club records broken. U/15 Sharnee Griffiths broke the Discus record with 24.84m, breaking the previous distance of 24.53 set in 1993. Sharnee also broke her own Javelin Club record with a throw of 16.08m. U/8 Erin Holdway broke a 1994 Discus Record with a throw of 16.49m - a 4.49m PB!, the previous was 16.07m.  U/10 Emma Thomson broke a 1996 80m Hurdles record in a time of 17.03 sec, the previous being 17.52 sec. 

Centre Champions were  by U/11 David Thomson with 4 Gold Medals followed by U/7 Alexander Barton-Smith with 3 Gold and 1 Bronze Medal, then U/15 Josh Holdway with 2 Gold 1 Silver and 2 Bronze, U/9 Annie Egan with 1 Gold, 2 Silver and 1 Bronze Medal, both U/8 Jessica Thomson and U/9 Erin Holdway with 1 Gold, 1 Silver and 1 Bronze Medal and U/8 Clay Bryant with 1 Gold and 1 Silver Medal. Well done to all athletes competing!

Best PB effort for the Championship Day was by U/8 Clay Bryant and U/15 Josh Holdway with 3 PB's each. 

Please click on our 2006/07 Championships webpage for full results or by clicking here. 

A full set		U/12 Long Jump		U/7 400m Walk		U/15 Shot Put		U/8 High Jump
U/9 Erin		Matija - Bronze Medal		Annabelle		Josh - Gold		Jessica - Gold

Four gold		U/7 Adam		U/9 Triple Jump		U/10 60m Hurdles		U/15 Discus
U/11 David				Annie - Gold		Emma - Silver		Sharnee - Silver

	U/9 60m Hurdles		U/8 60m Hurdles		U/8 Discus		U/8 High Jump
	Zac		Clay - Silver      Alex - Gold		Nathan		Jack - Bronze

17th-18th March 2007 - VLAA State Championships - Olympic Park

Congratulations to U/11 David Thomson who has won the first State Track & Field Medals for our club since the 1998/99 season. David won a Bronze in the 80m Hurdles final on Saturday and a Silver in the 60m Hurdles final on Sunday. He also competed in the High Jump coming 22nd.

His sister U/10 Emma Thomson came 20th in the 1100m Walk. U/9 Annie Egan came12th in the 800m Final and16th in the Triple Jump. 

U/15 Josh Holdway came 7th in the Shot Put, 11th in the Discus, 16th in the Javelin and 7th in the 300m Hurdles heat. All placings improving on Josh's year's State Championships. The first three events were PB efforts too!

These are excellent results considering that only a very small percentage make it into the State Championships and in each event, they were competing against 24 of the best athletes in the State.

Full results are on our 2006/07 Championships webpage

David's State Medals		Annie - 800m Final

Week 21 - Fri  16th March  2007

Chris Pearce MP presented our club with a Certificate in recognition of the contribution from volunteer groups in the community such as Little Aths. This was for the Federal Government’s "2006 Volunteer Small Equipment Grant” which we were successful in,  to purchase our new Portable BBQ,  with thanks to Rays Outdoors, Nunawading who also gave our club a discount.  Shown with Chris and our new BBQ is our Cook, Mike Thomas,  Club Secretary Stephen Egan and U/7 athlete Annabelle Thomas.

It was a quiet night at the track with many of the Knox athletes competing in the State Championships in the following few days taking the night off to rest.

Best PB effort for the night was by U/11 Aiden Hartney with 3 PB's, followed by U/9's Emily Dewar, Annie Egan and Jacob Mumford with 2 PB's each. 

Tom - Long Jump		Nathan, Jack, Joshua & Alex		Aiden - 70m winner

Sun 11th March 2007 - Werribee Little Athletics Open Day

Week 20 - Sat  10th March  2007

We had five club records broken for the morning. Three club records were by U/15 Sharnee Griffiths. She ran the 90m Hurdles with a time of 16.23 sec. The old record was 17.81sec set on 12th March 1994. Sharnee ran the 400m in a record time of 1 min 09.39 sec but beating the old record of 1 min 09.40 sec set on 12 Mar 1992. Sharnee also broke the Javelin record with a throw of 15.37m. The old record 12.14m was set on 26th Feb 1999.The other two were by U/11 David Thomson, both his own club records. He ran the 60m Hurdles record with a time of 10.01 sec,  the other was in the 200m Hurdles with a time of 33.56 seconds. The latter time had also broken the Knox Centre record but as David came second, it goes to his Knox team mate winner. 

Congratulations to U/8 Cody Norton and U/10 Jessica Richardson  who have reached their Gold PB Medal Status and also to U/9 Joshua Nolan who reached his Silver PB Medal Status and to U/8 Alexander Barton-Smith who reached his Bronze PB Medal Status.  U/11 Aiden Hartney has reached his 10 PB Certificate.

Best PB effort for the morning was by U/10 Jessica Richardson with 4 PB's, followed by U/9 Joshua Nolan, U/15 Josh Holdway. and all three U/9 girls Erin Holdway, Emily Dewar and Annie Egan with 3 PB's. U/15 Sharnee Griffiths obtained 2 PB's and 3 SB's for her events.

Alexander		Sharnee		Cody & Clay
photos courtesy of Phil Matthews

State Multi-Event Championships - 3rd/4th March 2007 - Ballarat

We had three athletes competing in the Multi-Event State Championships up at the Llanberris Athletics Facility in Ballarat against around fifty of the best athletes within the state for the title of best all round athlete in each age group. 

Our best result was by U/11 David Thomson who won the first State Medal in this event for Bayswater Bullets. David came third winning the Bronze with 2754 points which also set a new Knox Centre U/11 Boys Record. The previous Knox Centre record was 2540 points set in 2002.

U/9 Annie Egan increased her Multi-Event score by 259 points by coming 12th with1232 points.

U/15 Josh Holdway increased his Multi-Event score by 352 points by coming 26th with 2363 points

Results have been posted on our 2006/07 Championship page .

Week 19 - Fri  2nd March  2007

It was a quite night at the track with a third of the team at the Bayswater South Primary School Twilight Sports at the Nunawading track. Congratulations to U/9 Erin Holdway who broke a 1991 record in the Shot Put with 5.05m. The previous record was 4.82m. U/15 Sharnee Griffiths also set a Hammer Throw record of 11.05m which was the first time a result has been set for this event.

Congratulations to U/8 Jessica Thomson  who has reached her Gold PB Medal Status and to U/7 Kahlab Stephens who has reached his Silver PB Medal Status.

Best PB effort for the night was by U/8 Jessica Thomson, U/9 Joshua Nolan and U/10 Emma Thomson, all with 3 PB's.

Tom		Cody		Jessica & Emma
photos courtesy of Phil Matthews

Twilight Sports Night - Bayswater South Primary School - Fri  2nd March 2007

It was the Annual Twilight Sports night at the East Burwood Nunawading athletic track with all our current and ex-athletes winning many in the top three placings.

Sun 25th February 2007 - Ringwood Little Athletics Multi-Event Open Day

Week 18 - Sat  24th February  2007

Due to the heavy rains which didn't stop until well after 8:00am, the morning competition was cancelled, which was the first for this season.

Eastern Metropolitan Regional T&F Championships - Sat/Sun  17th/18th February 2007

Congratulations to our athletes who competed against the best from the12 different Centres within the Eastern Suburbs. A credit to all our athletes competing. The first two in each event qualify for the State Championships at Olympic Park and then the next eight best results within the State will progress also.

We had seven athletes competing for the Knox Centre with some great results.  

Congratulations to U/11 David Thomson who broke two club records. The first was his own in the 60m Hurdles with a time of 10.06 sec and the second was in the 80m Hurdles with a time of 13.62 seconds. The previous best was 14.25 sec on 20 Mar 1993. Also to U/15 Sharnee Griffiths who broke her own club record in the 200m with a time of 29.59 seconds.

Best PB Effort was by U/10 Emma Thomson with 3 PB's for the weekend.

Four of our athletes medalled this season, Josh winning a Regional Silver Medal and Annie, David and Sharnee winning Bronze, which is the best result for quite a few years.

We had five who have qualified or progressed to State. Well done to U/9 Annie Egan (800m and Triple Jump), U/10 Emma Thomson (1100m Walk), U/11 David Thomson (60m H, 80m H and High Jump),  U/15 Sharnee Griffiths (Discus) and U/15 Josh Holdway (300m H, Shot Put, Discus and Javelin). Well done also to U/9 Erin Holdway and U/12 Matija Pecek who had some good results but just missing out. This is the most we have had go to the State Track & Field Championships since 1997.

Full results are on our 2006/2007 Championships webpage or by clicking  here.

Emma - 80m H		Annie - 800m		Erin - 80m H		Matija - LJ
Sharnee - Discus		Josh - 300m Hurdles		David - 60m Hurdles
Some photos courtesy of Phil Matthews

Week 17 - Thu  15th February  2007

This season, we have introduced Team Captains  to provide leadership, guidance to our younger Bullets and to provide positive role models and ambassadors to our club.  Pictured to the left is U/15 Josh Holdway being presented with his 2006/07 Male Team Captain badge by our President Dean Barton-Smith.  U/14 Daragh Moore is on holidays with her family and will be presented with her Female Team Captain badge next week

Well done to U/15 Sharnee Griffiths who set an U/15 70m Club Record with a time of 9.73 seconds.

Congratulations to U/9 Nicholas Elliott who has reached his 10 PB Certificate. Also to U/13 Deborah Elliott who has reached her Silver PB Medal Status and to U/9 Annie Egan has reached her Gold PB Medal Status.

Best PB effort for the night was by U/10 Emma Thomson and U/11 David Thomson with 4 PB's each followed by U/8 Nathan Goodger and  U/15 Josh Holdway with 3 PB's each.

Zac - 400m		Clay - 400m		Annabelle - LJ		Luke - 200m		Thomas - 400m
Some photos courtesy of Phil Matthews

Sun 11th February 2007 - Seaford Little Athletics Open Day

Week 16 - Sat  10th February  2007

This was our best day for Club Records so far this season with U/11 David Thomson breaking his own Club Records in the 60m Hurdles with 10.44 sec and also in the 200m Hurdles with a time of 34.61 seconds. U/15 Josh Holdway broke his Javelin Club record by half a metre with a throw of 32.63m. U/15 Sharnee Griffiths established two Club Records for new U/15 events in the 100m Hurdles with a time of 17.53 sec and for the Steeple with a time of 5.09.35 which was a PB time.

Congratulations to U/7 Annabelle Thomas, U/9 Joshua Nolan and U/9 Jacob Mumford who have all reached their Bronze PB Medal Status and to U/8 Jessica Thomson who has reached her Silver PB Medal Status and to U/11 Claire Elliott who has reached her Gold Medal status.

Best PB effort for the morning was by U/8 Jessica Thomson with 4 PB's followed by U/10 Jessica Richardson, U/11 David Thomson and U/15 Josh Holdway with 3 PB's each.

We also welcome new athlete U/9 Emily Dewar and her family to our club.

Emily - 100m		Jacob - 100m		Bayswater Bullets Girls		Alex - 60m H		Aiden - 100m
Some photos courtesy of Phil Matthews

Sun 4th February 2007 - Bayside Little Athletics Open Day

Sun 4th February 2007 - Maryborough Little Athletics Open Day

Week 15 - Sat  3rd February  2007

Well done to U/15 Sharnee Griffiths who broke two club records.  In the 300m Hurdles, she ran a time of 53.96 seconds. The previous best was 55.19 seconds done back in 1993. In the 90m Hurdles, Sharnee ran it in a time of 16.31 seconds. The previous best was in 1994 with a  time of 17.81 seconds.

Congratulations also goes to U/8 Zack Welsh who has reached his 10 PB Certificate and also to U/7 Kahlab Stephens who has reached his Bronze PB Medal Status and to U/10 Jorgia Foster and U/10 Jessica Richardson who both have reached their Silver PB Medal Status. Also to U/8 Jack Bole-Brown who has reached his Gold PB Medal status.

Best PB effort for the morning was by U/7 Annabelle Thomas, U/7 Kahlab Stephens and U/10 Jessica Richardson with 3 PB's each.

Joshua - Long Jump		Claire - 400m		Jessica - High Jump		Nicholas - LJ		Emma - Discus

Sun 28th January 2007 - Corio Little Athletics Open Day

Week 14 - Sat  27th January 2007 - Knox Open Twilight 

This was a special event where athletes from other Centres from around the state are invited to compete against the Knox Athletes.  Medals were presented to the first 3 placegetters and Ribbons for 4th to 8th place. There was a large entry this season making competition very tough, but some of our Bullets took it up with the best of them with our Open Medal tally of one Gold, six Silver and one Bronze Medal. 

Well done to U/15 Josh Holdway who broke his own club record in the Javelin by well over 3 metres and also to U/15 Sharnee Griffiths who broke the Triple Jump record by 21cm

Congratulations also goes to U/12 Matija Pecek who has reached his Bronze PB Medal status and to U/7 Tom Richardson and U/9 Annie Egan who have reached their Silver PB Medal Status. 

Best PB effort for the Twilight was by U/7 Tom Richardson with 3 PB's followed by U/9 Annie Egan and U/15 Josh Holdway with 2 PB's each.

Sun 21st January 2007 - Chelsea Little Athletics Open Day

Sat  20th January 2007

Well done to U/11 David Thomson who has broken his own club 200m Hurdles record set back in November with a time of 35.35 seconds.

Best PB effort for the day was by U/9 Zac Thomas with 4 PB's followed his sister U/7 Annabelle Thomas and U/8 Nathan Goodger, both with 3 PB's each.

Congratulations to U/7 Annabelle Thomas who has reached her 10 PB Certificate status and to U/8 Jessica Thomson who has reached her Bronze PB Medal Status and U/9 Zac Thomas who has reached his Gold PB Medal status.

Jessica - Long Jump		Nathan & Jack - 60m Hurdles		David - 60m Hurdles
Some photos courtesy of Phil Matthews

Sun 14th January 2007 - Southern Peninsula Little Athletics Open Day

Sat  13th January 2007

It was a quiet start to the new year but it was great to see U/15 Sharnee Griffiths back in action after sustaining a hamstring injury just before the season had started. Sharnee had a great start where she broke the Girls U/15 200m club record with a time of 29.69 sec. The old record of 29.75 sec was set in 1994. 

Another to break a club record is U/11 David Thomson in the Javelin by over four metres with a throw of 23.36m. The previous record was 19.16m set in 2000.

Best PB effort for the day was by U/8 Nathan Goodger with 4 PB's followed by U/8 Clay Bryant and U/15 Josh Holdway with 3 PB's each.

Congratulations to U/8 Clay Bryant and U/9 Zac Thomas who have both reached their Silver PB Medal Status. 

Cody - 200m		Adam - Discus		Sharnee - Shot Put		Josh		Zac - 80m Hurdles
Some photos courtesy of Phil Matthews

Sat  16th December 2006 - Knox Multi-Event Day

The Multi Event is a competition which tests athlete’s all round skills with points allocated depending on their level of performance in a set range of events. The winner of the Multi-Event is the athlete with the highest total point score after all events.

This event places a stronger emphasis on the participation of children in a wider range of events rather than the specialisation in one or two specific events. For scoring details, see: http://www.klac23.org.au/multiscoringeventscoring.htm  

for the full event breakdown results, see:

http://www.klac23.org.au/Results/2006T&F/KnoxMultiEvents-ProvisionalResults2006-1.pdf

This is the Knox Centre's fourth Multi-Event which first started in 2003. At the end of this season, we  will be introducing Multi-Event club records for the first time. 

Best PB effort for the day was by U/9 Luke Lighton with 4 PB's followed by U/7 Adam Maggs with 3 PB's.

Best Multi-Event performance was by U/11 David Thomson in coming second with 2329 points.

Congratulations to U/7 Adam Maggs, U/8 Nathan Goodger and U/8 Jack Bole-Brown who have all  reached their Silver PB Medal Status. Also to U/9 Annie Egan who reached her Bronze PB Medal Status.

Provisional Multi-Event club records were obtained by U/9 Annie Egan, U/9 Zac Thomas, U/10 Emma Thomson, U/11 David Thomson, U/12 Matija Pecek and U/15 Josh Holdway.

U/8 Jessica - 60m H		U/8's Zack, Nathan & Jack  - 100m		U/7 Kahlab - LJ		U/10 Emma -800m
Photos Courtesy of Phil Matthews

Sun 10th December 2006 - VLAA State Relay Championships - Olympic Park

Well it was a day of contrasts with the temperature peaking at 41 deg C before plunging to 27 deg C within 15 minutes just before the 4x200 Heats had started. Bayswater Bullets athletes did very well for Knox, each helping to win a State medal for their teams. 

Annie Egan's team won both in the Heat and the Final to win Gold with the Girls U/9 4x200m to become State Champions with a time of 2 min19.72 sec which was the fastest time since 2001. She also ran in the U/9 Mixed Sex 4x100 Heat coming fourth with a time of 1 min 06.27 sec,  just missing out on the Final. 

Interestingly, Annie's Assistant Relay Coach is Hayley Malt, an Ex Bayswater Bullets State Champion from the mid 1990's who still holds Knox Centre records and 16 Club Records. A PhotoVideo of the U/9 Girls Relay season can be seen by clicking http://www.bayswater.klac23.org.au/Video/2006U9G-KnoxRelay.wmv

David Thomson did as equally well in his team by winning the Silver Medal in coming second in both Heat and Final of the Boys U/11  4x100m with a time of 55.02 sec,  just missing out on Gold by 0.12 of a second. In the Boys U/11 4x200m, his team won the Heat and came third in the Final but unfortunately, the Knox Team was disqualified in the Final. 

Annie  Gold 4x200m				David  Silver 4x100m

Fri 8th December 2006

Well it was the best for PB's so far this season with 59 in total. It must have been the special "Girls Vs Boys" night in the 70m and 200m events as these were the events where the most PB's were obtained. Heard quite a few girls coming back to the Team Managers table quite happy they had beaten boys and then there were the boys proud they had not been beaten in their events by any girls.

Best PB effort for the night was by U/7 Adam Maggs, U/9 Annie Egan, U/9 Jacob Mumford and U/11 Claire Elliott all with 4 PB's each.

Congratulations to U/9 Erin Holdway who has reached her Gold PB Medal Status and to U/8 Cody Norton and U/9 Zac Thomas who have both  reached their Silver PB Medal Status and to U/8 Clay Bryant  who had reached his Bronze PB Medal Status.  Also to U/7 Adam Maggs, U/7 Tom Richardson, U/8 Thomas Elliott  and U/10 Jessica Richardson who have all reached their Bronze PB Medal Status

Well done to  U/9 Jacob Mumford and U/12 Matija Pecek who have reached their 10 PB Certificate.

Sun 3rd December 2006 - Waverley  Little Athletics Open Day

We had one athlete compete at the Waverley Open Day with Throws Specialist U/15 Josh Holdway winning two Gold Medals out of two events in the Shot Put and Discus.

Sat 2nd December 2006

Firstly, thankyou very much to the parents who donated items for the annual raffle and also for the items at the cake stall as well as those who sold tickets around the ground and at the table. Your efforts are very much appreciated and these funds will be set aside for our end of season AGM & Trophy presentations and awards for our children.

Best PB effort for the day was by U/7 Adam Maggs, U/7 Tom Richardson, U/8 Nathan Goodger, U/8 Clay Bryant, U/10 Jessica Richardson and U/11 David Thomson with 3 PB's each.

An excellent effort by U/11 David Thomson who broke a 13 year old 60m Hurdles club records in a time of 10.54 seconds. The previous record was 10.86 sec on 21 Mar 1993

Congratulations to U/10 Emma Thomson who has reached her Gold PB Medal Status and to U/8 Jack Bole-Brown who has reached his Bronze PB Status. Well done to  U/8 Alex Barton-Smith, U/9 Annie Egan and U/10 Liam Murray have all reached their 10 PB Certificate.

Tom		Erin		Matija		Jessica		Nathan

9th FESPIC Games Kuala Lumpur 25 Nov - 1 Dec

Ex-Bayswater Bullets Little Athletics Club disabled athlete Brydee Moore won two Gold Medals in the F33 Classification for Australia at the FESPIC Games in Malaysia. FESPIC Federation (formerly spelled out as Far East and South Pacific Games Federation for the disabled - www.fespickl06.com.my ) is the sports organization for the persons with disability in Asia and South Pacific.

Brydee, in her very first International competition won the Shot Put with a throw of 6.06m and also won the Discus with a throw of 11.67m which is a new Australian Record. Assistant Bayswater Bullets Team Manager Donna Moore flew over during the weekend to be with her daughter to celebrate and got there just in time to watch her win in the Discus. Australia came ninth in the overall medal tally with 15 Gold, 17 Silver and 23 Bronze medals which was won by China. This competition was important to Brydee as it is a stepping stone to represent Australia in the 2008 Beijing Olympics. 

www.paralympic.org.au/apc_athlete.asp?id=1182

Sat 25th November 2006

Best PB effort for the day was by U/9 Zac Thomas, U/10 Emma Thomson, U/11 Claire Elliott and U/11 David Thomson with 4 PB's each.

Congratulations to U/10 David Thomson who has reached his Gold Medal PB Status. U/9 Erin Holdway and U/10 Emma Thomson who have reached their Silver PB Medal status. Also to U/8 Cody Norton, U/8 Nathan Goodger, U/9 Zac Thomas, U/10 Jorgia Foster and U/11 Jorgia Foster who have all reached their Bronze PB Medal status. U/7 Tom Richardson, U/7 Kahlab Stephens,  U/8 Jessica Thomson,  U/8 Thomas Elliott  and U/10 Jessica Richardson have all reached their 10 PB Certificate.

Welcome to U/9 Luke Lighton who joins us this week and is a cousin of U/7 Tom Richardson.

Nicholas		Luke		Jessica		Daragh		Alexander

Sun 19th November 2006 - Eastern Metropolitan Regional Relay Championships